churning

English

Set up for churning butter.

Verb

churning

1. present participle and gerund of churn

Noun

churning (plural churnings)

1. The act by which something is churned.
   • 2023 December 27, Mindy Weisberger, “Ancient bricks baked when Nebuchadnezzar II was king absorbed a power surge in Earth’s magnetic field”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Earth is surrounded by a magnetosphere — an invisible bubble of magnetism generated by the powerful churning of molten metals at Earth’s core.

2. The quantity of butter prepared (by churning) at one time.

Derived terms

• antichurning

Anagrams

• runching